David Tepper

Fair enough, but that still creates a problem. Also, I'm pretty sure none of the other teams you mentioned have a stadium lease that's set to expire soon.

 

You think the league will reimburse the difference between what tepper paid verses what Navarro offered (rumored to be 2.6 billion) just to speed along the process

 

Not sure what you mean. There is no lease here. The team owns the building. If you’re talking about the ‘tether’ to the city, that’s always been crap. If an owner wants to move, said owner will pay whatever penalties the city or state government have in place. In the long run, a couple hundred mil isn’t going to phase them. Just look at the St Louis situation. My belief is that he bought the Rams with the intention of moving them. There was little or nothing St Louis could do to stop it. The good news for us is that the only viable option seems to be London. And there are shit loads of logistical issues with a permanent team there.

 

My opinion is yes. The NFL wanted this guy over Navarro they subsidized the purchase to make JR whole. But that’s just my opinion.

 

That's technically true, but the stadium improvements of '13 effectively locked the team into Charlotte through 2019. As for paying the penalties and such, I actually think that's a pretty strong deterrent. Would you rather pay hundreds of millions to leave or nothing to leave? Has an owner ever done that? The Rams were on a year to year basis with St. Louis. As far as I know, Kroenke payed nothing to leave. Same with the Chargers.


And the owners are dead serious about international expansion. It may not be viable in the immediate future, but they clealy want this to happen.

 

Isn't that the price of being down town? I haven't been to a game in 4 years or so, but before that I went to every game and just accepted the reality of $20 parking.

 

Or have family 5 blocks away and park FREE

 

In the end I think in the next 5-10 years BoA 2.0 (with a roof) will be built at the current site . . . Just like the Vikings did in Downtown Minneapolis; Tear down the Metrodome and build US Bank Stadium on the same plot of land . . . Panthers will have to play in Columbia/Chapel Hill/Winston-Salem** for 2 years and then come back . . . .

**Hey, if Chargers (NFL) can play in 25k seat HOME DEPOT CENTER (MLS Stadium) it shouldn't be that bad playing at BB&T FIELD (Wake Forest) for the short term . . . Yeah, its a small college stadium but it still has amenities that the Panthers can use (limited skyboxes and clubseats)

 

Coming back to SC for a year or two would be pretty damn cool. I actually liked the rumor about building the new stadium in Rock Hill. South Carolina kicks North Carolina's ass.